Gulfcoast Eye Care, St Petersburg: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1306165493
- Legal business name
- Pinellas Eye Care PA
- Registered trading name
- Gulfcoast Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist; Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management; Optometrist, Pediatrics; Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Ophthalmology, Retina Specialist
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 3 additional taxonomy codes outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 1515 9TH Ave N
St Petersburg, FL 33705-1224 - Phone on the record
- (727) 895-2020
- NPI issued
- May 27, 2010
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 23, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
- County
- Pinellas County
- Locations under this name
- 3 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Pinellas Eye Care PA and registered Gulfcoast Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management and Optometrist, Pediatrics, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. 3 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was refreshed in July 2024, putting it among the 126 of 536 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: St Petersburg holds 50 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 30 of them optometry and 20 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 33705. 27 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Florida Eye Center PA in St Petersburg, 0.0 miles away.
None of this is a licensing check. CMS issues an NPI so a provider can be identified in billing transactions, and states plainly that issuance does not ensure or validate that the holder is licensed or credentialed. The Florida boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Eye Center PA | Ophthalmology | October 2011 |
Nearest registered practices
423 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro itself there are 536, 49 of them elsewhere in St Petersburg. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Eye Center PA | St Petersburg | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (727) 895-2020 |
| Baycare Medical Group Inc | St Petersburg | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (727) 824-7134 |
| Kuplicki Eyecare & Optical, PLLC | Saint Petersburg | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (727) 430-0624 |
| The Retina Insitute | St Petersburg | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (727) 894-3937 |
| Anthony Aesthetics | St Petersburg | Oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery | 0.7 mi | (305) 812-2962 |
Distances are straight line between registered practice locations, not driving distance. Records placed at a ZIP centroid rather than a matched street address are excluded from this comparison.
What to expect to pay at an ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Gulfcoast Eye Care, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more at this kind of practice without insurance, which is a reported band rather than a published price. The nearest published figure is $95, the median starting fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004). Ask Gulfcoast Eye Care for its self-pay price.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 381 optometry practices on the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater page if you only need a prescription.